HomeMy WebLinkAbout02719 ORD - 03/07/1950AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING AN ORDINANCE ENTITIAM "AN ORDINANCE TO PROMOTE
THE HEALTH CONDITIONS OF THE CITY BY PROVIDING A CODE OF
SANITARY REGULATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL PLACES,
BUSINESSES AND PERSONS YTHEREIN OR BY WHOM FOODSTUFF OR
DRINIOS FOR HUMAN BEINGS IS PRODUCED, HANDLED, PREPARED,
CARED FOR OR SOLD, AND ALL VEHICLES USED IN CONNECTION
WITH ANY SUCH BUSINESS, FOR THE CONDUCT OF HOTELS AND
LODGING HOUSES; AND PRESCRIBING THE PUNISHMENT FOR THE
VIOLATION OF TEE SEVERAL PROVISIONS HEREIN CONTAINED;
PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN LICENSES AND PERMITS, CONTAINING
A SAVINGS CLAUSE, AND DECLARING AN EMW.RGENOY. ", PASSED
AND APPROVED ON THE 8TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, A.D., 1938, AS
AMENDED, BY ADDING TO ARTICLE I, SECTION 1, THE DEFINI-
TION OF TIM TERM "COMMON TOWEL ", AND BY AMENDING ARTICLE
III, SECTION 25 SO AS TO PERMIT TBE USE OF A CLOTH OR
PAPER TOWEL UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS: AND DECLARING AN
URGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS :
SECTION I. That Ordinance No. 820, passed and approved by the City
Council of the City of Corpus Christi, on the 8th day of February, A.D. 1938,
as amended, be and the same is hereby amended by adding to Article I, Section
1, the following definition:
"The words 'Common towelf as hereinafter used
shall not be taken to include a cloth or paper towel
in the form of a roll provided the same be so arrang-
ed so that a portion or section thereof be available for the
use of each person desiring to use the same, and a suf-
ficient reserve thereof shall be at the location for in-
stallation immediately upon exhaustion of the roll being
used."
SECTION II. That Ordinance No. 820, passed and approved by the City
Council of the City of Corpus Christi, on the 8th day of February, A.D. 19380
as amended, be and the same is hereby amended by amending Article III, Section
25, so as to hereafter read as follcws,torwit:
"25. CUPS AND TOWELS: No common or public drink-
ing cup, and no roller towel shall be permitted to be
placed or kept in any room or apartment used in common
by the guests of any hotel or restaurant; EXCEPT, a sani-
tary roller paper or cloth towel, and then, only if said
roller towel be a sanitary cloth or paper towel in the
form of a roll so arranged that a portion or section there-
of be available for the use of each person desiring the
use of same, and a sufficient reserve thereof shall be at
the location for installation immediately upon exhaustion
of the roll being used."
SECTION III. The public importance of providing health regulations
to protect public health and welfare creates a public emergency and it is im-
perative to the good of the City that the rule requiring that no ordinance or
resolution shall be passed finally on the date of introduction and that such
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ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City
Council be suspended$ and the Mayor having declared that such public emergency
and imperative public necessity exist and requesting that said Charter rule be
suspended and that this ordinance take effect and be in full force and effect
from and after its passage$ IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED This 7th def of March$ A.D. 1950.
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City ecretary
APPR S TMLEAL.FORM:
City Attorney
�i-1 TEM T e pus Christi, Texas
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Corpus Christi, Texas
1/hQnclu 1 , 199
TO THE ERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore-
going ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for
the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or
resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and
that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the
City Council; I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter
rule or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is
introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
�o -7E
City of Corpus Chrl sti, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest /]
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman j]
Jack DeForrest �G(
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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